Word: wu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council awarded its annual Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize to Ernest H. Wu, a teaching fellow in Biology 7b, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, and Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar...
Suddenly, at 93 Kelvin (-292 degrees F), the resistance dropped precipitously. The substance had become a superconductor, able to transmit current with virtually no loss of energy. "We were so excited and so nervous that our hands were shaking," says Physicist Maw-kuen Wu. "At first we were suspicious that it was an error...
...Wu's group, under the direction of University of Houston Physicist Paul C.W. Chu, had achieved the phenomenon of superconductivity at a higher temperature than ever before. And the National Science Foundation announced last week that Chu's Houston lab had pushed that temperature 5 degrees higher -- to 98 K. Under such conditions -- far less extreme than those required only a few years ago -- superconducting technology might eventually become inexpensive and even commonplace. Possible applications: superconducting cables that could transmit electricity from a power plant to a distant city with essentially no energy loss; practical versions of trains that...
Some students prefer to pursue their own regimen. Lucian Wu '90, who started working out on his own this year, says the finds the atmosphere can be somewhat intimidating, "especially if you're not on the football team...
...away from the hard-core jocks, Wu says, "You just have to concentrate on what you're doing for yourself. Try not to keep it an ego thing." He says he thinks that weightlifting fosters individualism, but admits, "A lot of it has to do with looks--it's pure vanity, that's my motivation. It's a matter of feeling good and looking good...